The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

One of the most pathetic—and dangerous—signs of our times is the growing number of individuals and groups who believe that no one can possibly disagree with them for any honest reason.

Meaningful silence is better than meaningless words.

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

Aloha is free.

If you cannot be honest with yourself, there is no hope of being honest with anyone else.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in the newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked.

False leaders create followers by lying.

If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: never lie to yourself.

No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.

Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a life.

An inability to stay quiet . . . is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

Listen with ears of tolerance, see through the eyes of compassion, speak with language of love.

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.

The No. 1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

A leader who does not take advice is not a leader.

Most conversations are just alternating monologues. The question is, is there any real listening going on.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.

I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.

When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?

Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as heroes of imaginary victories; and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that never happened. I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various “party lines.”

We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Realizing the Divine as Truth will save you hours of work in research in any field. You will be led to the right book or the right place or the right person without loss of time, or the necessary information will come to you in some other way.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

There is no disguise which can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.